1. Refereed Journal // 2021

    The Effectiveness of a Large-scale Flood Risk Awareness Campaign – Evidence from Two Panel Data Sets

    In the context of integrated flood risk management, governments and public agencies aim to strengthen flood risk reduction and insurance at the household level. They often employ awareness campaigns in order to…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Optionality and Selectiveness in Innovation

    We use data from the European Community Innovation Survey to quantitatively explore how firms that discontinue innovation projects differ from firms that do not. Complementing prior literature centered on the…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Competition, Collusion and Spatial Sales Patterns – Theory and Evidence

    This article studies competition in markets with transport costs and capacity constraints. Using a rich micro-level data set of the cement industry in Germany, we study a cartel breakdown to identify the effect…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Euro area reform preferences of Central and Eastern European economic experts

    This study explores the positions of economic experts from Central and Eastern European (CEE) Member States in the euro reform debate. Given the dominant voices from French and German politicians and academics…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Wikipedia Matters

  6. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Firm-level effects of staged investments in innovation: The moderating role of resource availability

    Integrating insights on firms’ resource availability with bounded rationality and real options arguments, we propose that resource-abundant and resource-constrained firms reap different effects from a staged…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Nonfinancial Considerations in Eco-Innovation Decisions: The Role of Family Ownership and Reputation Concerns

    Societal pressures for greater sustainability can encourage firms to target part of their innovation activities at ecological initiatives (i.e., eco-innovation). Yet, depending on their value function, firms can…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Adolescent Video Game Playing And Fighting Over The Long‐Term

    I present new evidence of the link between video game play and fighting. The General Learning Model predicts that increased aggression from playing violent video games. These predictions are tested using a large…

  9. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Which firms use trademarks? Firm-level evidence from Germany on the role of distance, product quality and innovation

    Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a…

  10. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Five dimensions of the uncertainty–disagreement linkage

    We analyze the relationship between forecaster disagreement and macroeconomic uncertainty in the Euro area using data from the European Central Bank’s Survey of Professional Forecasters for the period…